Hints and tips:
...Neither the de Kooning nor the Richter has a guarantee to sell, Westphal confirms....
...We are on day one of the Rallye des Princesses, an all-female, five-day classic car rally that this year is being run along the Côte d’Opale, from Paris to La Baule through Normandy and Brittany....
...Its estimate of $20m-$30m could make it Van Gogh’s priciest watercolour to sell at auction....
...By necessity, one has to camp somewhere that a van can drive to; by definition, that is not somewhere I want to camp....
...Its denizens include Christian Louboutin and the Belgian architect Vincent Van Duysen, who designed his clay-coloured residence, Casa M, in a 5.6-hectare retreat (Van Duysen’s good friend Julianne Moore...
...There’s a second store on Rue de la Fontaine au Roi, a third on Rue des Martyrs, and an organic market twice a week on Place du Père Chaillet....
...In October 1898, I have just found, he wrote to his close friend Daniel de Monfreid in Paris and asked for items for the “plantation” around his Polynesian house....
...Alternating passages of chromatic harmony and dissonance in “Coucher de Soleil sur Morestil” are as contested and tumultuous as those of his friend Van Gogh....
...On a July morning last summer, Jean-François Pioc and Tanzi Ellison woke up from a makeshift night’s sleep in the back of a rental van....
...Bernard’s vision furnished Paul Gauguin, who was also living in Brittany, with the painterly tools to make his early masterpiece “Vision of the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel)” (1888)....
...Pissarro, Van Gogh and Dessar painted bucolic scenes of haymakers at rest. Gauguin showed the process of hay being harvested in Brittany....
...Although he came to Cambodia to train others, he switched roles to cook at the Hôtel de la Paix....
...Especially when contrasted with the Royal Academy’s recent Van Gogh show, this fascinating exhibition makes clear that Gauguin belongs with the Symbolists of the fin de siècle....
...AmsterdamGauguin From Friday, the Van Gogh Museum will display 60 paintings, drawings, sculptures and ceramics by Gauguin and his contemporaries....
...Perhaps you can’t wait for next weekend’s Calgary Folk Fest, or Dranouter in Belgium, or the Festival Interceltique de Lorient in Brittany....
...By 1890 Bevan had moved to the artists’ colony of Pont-Aven in Brittany, where Gauguin held court....
...Bastarde certainly lives up to his surname, cruising the countryside in his battered van trying to cheat clueless peasants out of their heirlooms....
...The investigation subsequently became linked to the Clearstream scandal that embroiled senior French politicians including Dominique de Villepin, the former prime minister....
...“I was in front of my trading screen that morning and could not believe what was happening,” says Erick Tripoli, proprietary trading manager at Van der Moolen, the Dutch market maker. “It was horrible....
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